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USC named to prestige group
The prestigious Association of American Universities has notified USC of its election to membership.
President Nathan Pusey of Harvard University and president of the association, relayed to President Norman Topping the news of this recognition.
Along with major public universities, the distinguished private institutions which USC joins in the association include the California Institute of Technology, Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, MIT, NYU, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale.
“The University of Southern California is indeed honored to have been selected for membership in this association which has done so much to establish and
maintain the highest standards in the American university community,” Topping said.
Membership is determined by the general excellence of an institution’s entire educational effort—particularly the caliber of the faculty, the available library resources, and the quality and magnitude of graduate and professional programs.
Founded in 1900 by 14 charter members with a common commitment to uncommon academic achievement, the association has added only 34 other universities to its roster in 69 years.
By being elected to the Association of American Universities, USC also becomes a member of its companion body, the Association of Graduate Schools.
“In American academe, there are recognized hallmarks of excellence,” Dr. John R. Hubbard, USC vice-president and provost, said.
“For students there are such things as Phi Beta Kappa and Rhodes scholarships. For faculty there are Guggenheim fellowships, National Science Foundation research grants, and, of course, the Nobel Prize.
“But for an institution of higher learning, membership in the Association of American Universities is the highest accolade it can receive.
“USC’s selection is tribute to a decade of Master Plan effort on the part of President Topping and the entire USC fagiily—faculty, students, trustees, alum-
ni, and friends.
“This honor does not mean that wc have achieved all our aims but is rather recognition by our peers of a solid foundation which will support even more towers of excellence,” Hubbard said.
Dr. Milton Kloetzel, vice-president for research and graduate affairs, was delighted by the news.
“This recognition of USC as one of the nation’s leading universities is most gratifying to all who have worked so strenuously towards acadcmic achievement at USC,” he said.
“Our election is clear evidence that wc have progressed from regional importance to a position of national stature and significance.”
CHARGED MALPRACTICE
Students consider joining police suit
By ANDY MILLER Managing editor
Students who witnessed alleged police malpractice during a four-hour shoct-out between police and Black Panthers Monday may become parties to a pending legal action filed by USC’s Western Center on Law and Poverty.
The action stems from three incidents where police seized an arsenal of weapons and arrested 24 persons in a series of raids on Black Panther offices throughout the city.
The most serious incident took place at the Panther headquarters at 4115 S. Central Ave. where three policemen were shot, one of them seriously, in the opening salvo of gunshots in a siege that lasted more than
Student says cops in chase were smiling
By RICH WISEMAN
“The police sat smiling and laughing. Then one policeman gave the word and, smiling and laughing, they ran after us swinging their billy clubs over their heads.”
That was the scene on 39th Street and Central Avenue yesterday morning as described by USC student Jack Cheney.
Cheney and his friend Miles Mitchell, another student, arrived at the site after they heard of the shoot-out between police and Black Panthers at the Panther’s 41st Street and Central Avenue headquarters.
“We went over to one of the groups of people who were standing around,” Cheney said. “Pretty soon the crowd started cheering in defiance when the Panthers were arrested.”
The crowd’s cheers soon led to heckling of police.
“The crowd became very loud,” Mitchell said. “It was an angry crowd but not a violent one.”
A group of policemen across the street from the Panther headquarters took the blunt of the crowd’s noise. Cheney said. They took the jibes good-naturedly, he added, until they were told to disperse t h e crowd.
“I heard no orders to disperse,” Cheney said. “But I started running.”
Cheney said that one man was hit hard on the top of the head. Another police blow was so hard, he added, that when it missed the head of its intended (Continued on page 2)
four hours before the barricaded militants surrendered.
Approximately twenty USC students witnessed the battle at 41st and Central, and later a smaller raid at 1100-1/2 W. Exposition Blvd.
Then they met with President Topping early in the afternoon to discuss grievances against the police.
In an hour meeting, Topping told the dozen students that the Western Center on Law and Poverty was the best-equipped investigative body on campus to hear the student complaints of police brutality.
Martin Levine, associate professor of law and one of the center’s attomies, spoke with students later in the afternoon, instructing the witnesses to fill out a comprehensive, eight-page “Interview sheet for victims or witnesses of police malpractice.”
The documents will bring forward new evidence in a class action law suit filed last October in the United States District Court which charges police brutality against the black community, and lists a number of remedies to correct police malpractice.
Levine said that the lawsuit asking for an injunction is an unusual action in the western part of the United States.
“In talking to these students,
I tried to take their very natural concern and emotions and put them in the proper legal context,” Levine said. “I want to show them that the legal system does provide channels for complaints.”
It was police crowd control methods during the Central Avenue confrontation that upset USC students. Most of the students were from the Urban Semester, or are Urban Affairs majors.
“The police had a right by law to search and seize the Panther headquarters,” Thomas Waner. senior in business, said. ‘But that’s an entirely different issue than turning on innocent bystanders.
“The police definitely instigated mass hysteria in the tactics they used on Central Avenue. Those were the same tactics thev used at Century City in 1966.”
No USC students were in-iured at either location, although several were tear-gassed.
Waner said that the students were approaching Dr. Topping because the issue was no longer a black issue in a black com-(Continued on page 2)
University of Southern California
DAILY A TROJAN
VOL. LXI, NO. 57
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
TUESDAY, DEC. 9,1969
IN THE STILL OF THE NIGHT
Campus panorama as seen from Birnkrant roof.
Photo by Barbara Lelcht
AFTER 22 YEARS AS USC
Librarian accepts full-time teaching position at Berkeley
Dr. Lewis F. Stieg, USC librarian since 1948, has resigned, effective June 30, to join the faculty of the School
REGISTRATION
WEDNESDAY
Early registration for the spring semester will begin Wednesday and continue through Friday.
Students may pick up registration materials at the Registrar’s Office by the following schedule:
N-R 9 a.m. to noon, Wednesday; S-Z 1 to 4 p.m. Wednesday; A-D 9 a.m. to noon Thursday; E-H 1 to 4 p.m. Thursday; I-M 9 a.m. to noon Friday; Any letter, 1 to 4 p.m. Friday.
Thereafter, the hours will be 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 8 a.m. to noon, Saturday through Jan. 9.
Class schedules will be available at the Information Center Wednesday.
of Librarianship at the University of California, Berkeley, he announced Monday.
Stieg, who has taught at Cal in recent summer sessions, said he made his decision about 10 months ago.
A committee of faculty, students and alumni will probably be appointed to start a nationwide search for a successor. This has been the administration’s procedure in filling similar vacancies at the dean and director level.
Slicg informed key staff members of the library Monday of his decision, which he said was a difficult one for him to make in view of his 22 years at USC.
He has had other offers in the past and rejected them because he did not want to leave USC and the Los Angeles area. The Cal offer to return to fulltime teaching, however, was too tempting to refuse, he said.
Stieg is a native of upstate New York and holds degrees from the University of Buffalo, Harvard University, University
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of Michigan and University of Chicago. He was librarian of Hamilton College and associate director of the University of Illinois Library School before coming to USC.
Stieg was one of the founders and the first president of the American Library Association's division of library education.

USC named to prestige group
The prestigious Association of American Universities has notified USC of its election to membership.
President Nathan Pusey of Harvard University and president of the association, relayed to President Norman Topping the news of this recognition.
Along with major public universities, the distinguished private institutions which USC joins in the association include the California Institute of Technology, Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, MIT, NYU, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale.
“The University of Southern California is indeed honored to have been selected for membership in this association which has done so much to establish and
maintain the highest standards in the American university community,” Topping said.
Membership is determined by the general excellence of an institution’s entire educational effort—particularly the caliber of the faculty, the available library resources, and the quality and magnitude of graduate and professional programs.
Founded in 1900 by 14 charter members with a common commitment to uncommon academic achievement, the association has added only 34 other universities to its roster in 69 years.
By being elected to the Association of American Universities, USC also becomes a member of its companion body, the Association of Graduate Schools.
“In American academe, there are recognized hallmarks of excellence,” Dr. John R. Hubbard, USC vice-president and provost, said.
“For students there are such things as Phi Beta Kappa and Rhodes scholarships. For faculty there are Guggenheim fellowships, National Science Foundation research grants, and, of course, the Nobel Prize.
“But for an institution of higher learning, membership in the Association of American Universities is the highest accolade it can receive.
“USC’s selection is tribute to a decade of Master Plan effort on the part of President Topping and the entire USC fagiily—faculty, students, trustees, alum-
ni, and friends.
“This honor does not mean that wc have achieved all our aims but is rather recognition by our peers of a solid foundation which will support even more towers of excellence,” Hubbard said.
Dr. Milton Kloetzel, vice-president for research and graduate affairs, was delighted by the news.
“This recognition of USC as one of the nation’s leading universities is most gratifying to all who have worked so strenuously towards acadcmic achievement at USC,” he said.
“Our election is clear evidence that wc have progressed from regional importance to a position of national stature and significance.”
CHARGED MALPRACTICE
Students consider joining police suit
By ANDY MILLER Managing editor
Students who witnessed alleged police malpractice during a four-hour shoct-out between police and Black Panthers Monday may become parties to a pending legal action filed by USC’s Western Center on Law and Poverty.
The action stems from three incidents where police seized an arsenal of weapons and arrested 24 persons in a series of raids on Black Panther offices throughout the city.
The most serious incident took place at the Panther headquarters at 4115 S. Central Ave. where three policemen were shot, one of them seriously, in the opening salvo of gunshots in a siege that lasted more than
Student says cops in chase were smiling
By RICH WISEMAN
“The police sat smiling and laughing. Then one policeman gave the word and, smiling and laughing, they ran after us swinging their billy clubs over their heads.”
That was the scene on 39th Street and Central Avenue yesterday morning as described by USC student Jack Cheney.
Cheney and his friend Miles Mitchell, another student, arrived at the site after they heard of the shoot-out between police and Black Panthers at the Panther’s 41st Street and Central Avenue headquarters.
“We went over to one of the groups of people who were standing around,” Cheney said. “Pretty soon the crowd started cheering in defiance when the Panthers were arrested.”
The crowd’s cheers soon led to heckling of police.
“The crowd became very loud,” Mitchell said. “It was an angry crowd but not a violent one.”
A group of policemen across the street from the Panther headquarters took the blunt of the crowd’s noise. Cheney said. They took the jibes good-naturedly, he added, until they were told to disperse t h e crowd.
“I heard no orders to disperse,” Cheney said. “But I started running.”
Cheney said that one man was hit hard on the top of the head. Another police blow was so hard, he added, that when it missed the head of its intended (Continued on page 2)
four hours before the barricaded militants surrendered.
Approximately twenty USC students witnessed the battle at 41st and Central, and later a smaller raid at 1100-1/2 W. Exposition Blvd.
Then they met with President Topping early in the afternoon to discuss grievances against the police.
In an hour meeting, Topping told the dozen students that the Western Center on Law and Poverty was the best-equipped investigative body on campus to hear the student complaints of police brutality.
Martin Levine, associate professor of law and one of the center’s attomies, spoke with students later in the afternoon, instructing the witnesses to fill out a comprehensive, eight-page “Interview sheet for victims or witnesses of police malpractice.”
The documents will bring forward new evidence in a class action law suit filed last October in the United States District Court which charges police brutality against the black community, and lists a number of remedies to correct police malpractice.
Levine said that the lawsuit asking for an injunction is an unusual action in the western part of the United States.
“In talking to these students,
I tried to take their very natural concern and emotions and put them in the proper legal context,” Levine said. “I want to show them that the legal system does provide channels for complaints.”
It was police crowd control methods during the Central Avenue confrontation that upset USC students. Most of the students were from the Urban Semester, or are Urban Affairs majors.
“The police had a right by law to search and seize the Panther headquarters,” Thomas Waner. senior in business, said. ‘But that’s an entirely different issue than turning on innocent bystanders.
“The police definitely instigated mass hysteria in the tactics they used on Central Avenue. Those were the same tactics thev used at Century City in 1966.”
No USC students were in-iured at either location, although several were tear-gassed.
Waner said that the students were approaching Dr. Topping because the issue was no longer a black issue in a black com-(Continued on page 2)
University of Southern California
DAILY A TROJAN
VOL. LXI, NO. 57
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
TUESDAY, DEC. 9,1969
IN THE STILL OF THE NIGHT
Campus panorama as seen from Birnkrant roof.
Photo by Barbara Lelcht
AFTER 22 YEARS AS USC
Librarian accepts full-time teaching position at Berkeley
Dr. Lewis F. Stieg, USC librarian since 1948, has resigned, effective June 30, to join the faculty of the School
REGISTRATION
WEDNESDAY
Early registration for the spring semester will begin Wednesday and continue through Friday.
Students may pick up registration materials at the Registrar’s Office by the following schedule:
N-R 9 a.m. to noon, Wednesday; S-Z 1 to 4 p.m. Wednesday; A-D 9 a.m. to noon Thursday; E-H 1 to 4 p.m. Thursday; I-M 9 a.m. to noon Friday; Any letter, 1 to 4 p.m. Friday.
Thereafter, the hours will be 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 8 a.m. to noon, Saturday through Jan. 9.
Class schedules will be available at the Information Center Wednesday.
of Librarianship at the University of California, Berkeley, he announced Monday.
Stieg, who has taught at Cal in recent summer sessions, said he made his decision about 10 months ago.
A committee of faculty, students and alumni will probably be appointed to start a nationwide search for a successor. This has been the administration’s procedure in filling similar vacancies at the dean and director level.
Slicg informed key staff members of the library Monday of his decision, which he said was a difficult one for him to make in view of his 22 years at USC.
He has had other offers in the past and rejected them because he did not want to leave USC and the Los Angeles area. The Cal offer to return to fulltime teaching, however, was too tempting to refuse, he said.
Stieg is a native of upstate New York and holds degrees from the University of Buffalo, Harvard University, University
.V
U \1 DR. LEWIS STIEG
of Michigan and University of Chicago. He was librarian of Hamilton College and associate director of the University of Illinois Library School before coming to USC.
Stieg was one of the founders and the first president of the American Library Association's division of library education.